-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The body of a University of Georgia professor accused of killing three people was found Saturday buried in woods near Athens , Georgia , authorities said .

George Zinkhan , a professor at the University of Georgia , disappeared after the slayings of his wife and two others .

George Zinkhan , 57 , is suspected of fatally shooting his wife and two other people last month outside a community theater in Athens , which is home to the University of Georgia .

Cadaver dogs discovered the body with two guns in a wooded area of northwest Clarke County , about a mile from where Zinkhan 's red Jeep Liberty was found last week , Athens-Clarke Police Chief Joseph Lumpkin said .

Athens-Clarke County police confirmed the identity of the body , citing results from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation .

The guns are like those authorities believe were used in the shootings , Lumpkin said .

The body was found `` beneath the earth , '' Lumpkin said , without any clothes .

`` A person who 's not accustomed to the woods would never have found the body , '' he said .

Significant `` efforts '' were undertaken to conceal the body 's location , Jim Fullington of the GBI said .

Authorities say Zinkhan fatally shot Marie Bruce , 47 , Zinkhan 's wife and a prominent Athens attorney , Tom Tanner , 40 , and Ben Teague , 63 , on April 25 .

The victims all were associated with the Town and Gown Players , a theater group that was holding a reunion picnic at the time of the shootings .

Zinkhan arrived while the Town and Gown event was under way and got into a disagreement with his wife , police said .

Police believe he went to his car -- where the couple 's children apparently were waiting -- and returned with two handguns .

In addition to the three deaths , two other people were wounded , police said .

After the shooting , Zinkhan left with his children -- ages 8 and 10 -- in the car , police said . He drove to a neighbor 's home in nearby Bogart , Georgia , where he lived , and left the children with the neighbor .

Authorities put out bulletins across the nation for Zinkhan after the shootings and revealed that he had purchased a May 2 ticket in March to the Netherlands , where he owns a house .

The day of the flight passed without any sign of Zinkhan .

He had been an endowed marketing professor at the University of Georgia 's Terry College of Business . The university fired Zinkhan the day after the shootings .

CNN 's Marylynn Ryan contributed to this report .

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NEW : Efforts made to conceal body found unclothed with guns , police say

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Cadaver dogs searching for George Zinkhan found body buried in woods , police say

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Body was a little more than a mile from professor 's Jeep

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University of Georgia professor was suspected of killing his wife , 2 other people